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Since SEVAMAYL has such a high flexibility, the standard Everyman-schedules are not going to suffice as the first adaptation step, and extended versions are necessary. The most common intermediate adaptation step is E3-extended, but E2-extended is also possible for a 6-hour core SEVAMAYL. E4-extended should work for people with sleep requirements on the lower side, but it is unclear how flexible a mere 3.5 hour long core will be on an adapted SEVAMAYL. There are only reports of a few successful E3-flex sleepers where one or two naps were a bit flexible, but otherwise required strict timing. A 3 hour core will likely not work. When comparing the raw nap flexibility of 3 hour versus 3.5 hour core E3, the difference is massive in that the 3-hour core schedules have nearly no flexibility at all.
Since SEVAMAYL has such a high flexibility, the standard Everyman-schedules are not going to suffice as the first adaptation step, and extended versions are necessary. The most common intermediate adaptation step is E3-extended, but E2-extended is also possible for a 6-hour core SEVAMAYL. E4-extended should work for people with sleep requirements on the lower side, but it is unclear how flexible a mere 3.5 hour long core will be on an adapted SEVAMAYL. There are only reports of a few successful E3-flex sleepers where one or two naps were a bit flexible, but otherwise required strict timing. A 3 hour core will likely not work. When comparing the raw nap flexibility of 3 hour versus 3.5 hour core E3, the difference is massive in that the 3-hour core schedules have nearly no flexibility at all.
== Difficulty ==
Since adaptation to SEVAMAYL requires a stable adaptation to the base schedule, followed by a flexing adaptation, then an adaptation to flexible nap and potentially, core lenghts (sheer time required with the potential of failure on each step) and even after adaptation requires permanent monitoring of current state of sleep pressure and ongoing daily preplanning of naps, the overall adaptation difficulty is considered to be high.
== Lifestyle consideration ==
== Lifestyle consideration ==
